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  • AND THE BAND PLAYED ON
    AND THE BAND PLAYED ON
    RANDY SHILTS
    In 1981, the year when AIDS came to international attention, he quickly devoted himself to reporting on the developing epidemic, one which devastated his community and eventually took his life as well. Shilts interviewed over 1,000 people, weaving together extensive research in the form of personal stories and political reportage. He was perfectly placed to understand the cultu...
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  • ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
    ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
    PIPER KERMAN
    When the author was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she had been when she committed the misdeeds that would eventually catch up with her. Happily ensconced in a New York City apartment, with a promising career and an attentive boyfriend, she was suddenly forced to reckon with the consequences of her very brief, very careles...
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  • JUJUTSU KAISEN, VOL. 4
    JUJUTSU KAISEN, VOL. 4
    GEGE AKUTAMI
    To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit, Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural!In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's bo...
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  • GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE
    GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE
    ROALD DAHL
    "The rule would be this: whatever George saw, if it was runny or powdery or gooey, in it went . . ." George Kranky's grandma is a grouch. She's always mean to George (and not much nicer to his parents either). One day, when George is put in charge of giving Grandma her medicine, he wonders if he can come up with his own remedy to try and help Grandma become less of a grump. ...
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  • THE WOMAN IN BLACK
    THE WOMAN IN BLACK
    SUSAN HILL
    Arthur Kipps did not believe in ghosts. Few attend Mrs. Alice Drablow's funeral, and not one blood relative amongst them. There are undertakers with shovels, of course, a local official who would rather be anywhere else, and one Mr. Arthur Kipps, solicitor from London. He is to spend the night in Eel Marsh House, the place where the old recluse died amidst a sinking swamp,...
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  • CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
    CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
    ANDRE ACIMAN
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  • SEA
    SEA
    PATRICIA HEGARTY
    Discover a world beneath the waves that is teeming with life, from tiny graceful seahorses to darting tropical fish and from electric eels to humpback whales. A colourful array of sea creatures is brought to life by award-winning illustrator Britta Teckentrup in this delightful peep-through picture book. ...
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  • FIVE SURVIVE
    FIVE SURVIVE
    HOLLY JACKSON
    AN INSTANT NUMBER 1 NYT BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! THE EXPLOSIVE NEW YA CRIME THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER. AN INSTANT NUMBER 1 NYT BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! WINNER of the CrimeFest award 2022 for Best Crime Fiction Novel for Young Adults! 'A blisteringly good standalone thriller.' The Observer, YA Books of th...
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  • BINTI: THE NIGHT MASQUERADE
    BINTI: THE NIGHT MASQUERADE
    NNEDI OKORAFOR
    The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI.Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient r...
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  • CAMP
    CAMP
    L. C. ROSEN / LEV AC ROSEN
    A Lambda Award Finalist, A Today Show Best Book, A Forbes Best Book, and an ALA Rainbow List Top Ten selection Set in a summer camp, this sweet and sharp screwball comedy set in a summer camp for queer teens examines the nature of toxic masculinity and self-acceptance. Sixteen-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens. It'...
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  • HENRY JAMES
    HENRY JAMES
    HENRY JAMES
    This collection of Henry James's letters-more than half of which have never been published-offers a vivid picture of his life of passionate creation and the complex world in which he lived. Through his exchanges with writers such as William Dean Howells, Henry Adams, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, and Edith Wharton, as well as presidents, prime ministers, bishops, painter...
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  • WILD GROUND
    WILD GROUND
    EMILY USHER
    'A glittering exploration of love's many faces - Wild Ground aches with hard-won hope and bruised tenderness' Colin Walsh, author of Kala'An intoxicating debut from a compelling new voice' Adelle Stripe, author of Black Teeth and a Brilliant SmileWhen Neef was twelve, her mother moved them out of Leeds and into her boyfriend's flat miles away. Resentful and unwelcome in their s...
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  • THE FIRST WOMAN
    THE FIRST WOMAN
    JENNIFER NANSUBUGA MAKUMBI
    'Jennifer Makumbi is a genius storyteller.' Reni Eddo-Lodge An intoxicating mix of Ugandan folklore and modern feminism, from a multi-award-winning author As Kirabo enters her teens, questions begin to gnaw at her - questions which the adults in her life will do anything to ignore. Where is the mother she has never known? And why would she choose to leave her daughter behind? I...
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  • KANTIKA
    KANTIKA
    ELIZABETH GRAVER
    A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika—"song" in Ladino—follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. Wh...
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  • THE WAY OF ALL FLESH
    THE WAY OF ALL FLESH
    AMBROSE PARRY
    Edinburgh, 1847. Will Raven is a medical student, apprenticing for the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Sarah Fisher is Simpson's housemaid, and has all of Raven's intelligence but none of his privileges. As bodies begin to appear across the Old Town, Raven and Sarah find themselves propelled headlong into the darkest shadows of Edinburgh's underworld. And if either of them a...
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  • THE RULES OF WEALTH
    THE RULES OF WEALTH
    RICHARD TEMPLAR
    A personal code for prosperity and plenty Some people seem to find money so easy. Easy to make, easy to hold on to, and easy to grow. The rest of us just find it easy to spend. Is it all luck, or is there something rich people know or do that we don't? Is it something we could all learn? The answer is a resounding yes. They know the Rules of wealth. The Rules of Wealth ar...
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  • GOOD GIRL COMPLEX
    GOOD GIRL COMPLEX
    ELLE KENNEDY
    She does everything right. So what could go wrong? Mackenzie 'Mac' Cabot is a people pleaser. Her demanding parents. Her prep school friends. Her long-time boyfriend. It's exhausting, really, always following the rules. Unlike most twenty-year-olds, all she really wants to do is focus on growing her internet business, but first she must get a college degree at her parents' insi...
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  • SEARCHES
    SEARCHES
    VAUHINI VARA
    One of Esquire's 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Electric Literature's 48 Books by Women of Colour to Read in 2025 When Vauhini Vara was fourteen, her sister was diagnosed with cancer. Too terrified to discuss it with a human, Vara instead turned to the fledgling i...
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  • GODS OF JADE AND SHADOW
    GODS OF JADE AND SHADOW
    SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA
    'This is historical fantasy at its best' S.A. Chakraborty, author of The City of Brass Inspired by Mexican folklore, Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical, wildly imaginative coming-of-age tale for fans of Katherine Arden, Naomi Novik and Helene Wecker. The Jazz Age is in full swing, but it's passing Casiopea Tun by. She's too busy scrubbing floors in her wealthy grandfather's...
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  • LANDSLIDE
    LANDSLIDE
    MICHAEL WOLFF
    Wolff closes the story of Trump's four years in office and his last months at the helm of the country ...
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  • EMMA
    EMMA
    JANE AUSTEN
    Now a major motion picture starring Anya Taylor-JoyPart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with he...
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  • IT'S A CREWEL WORLD
    IT'S A CREWEL WORLD
    TREE ELVEN
    'For Jules' party, I'd packed an acid-green singlet stitched with tiny, glittering Swarovski crystals that my boss had insisted on. He'd worn it to the Broadway opening night of A Chorus Line and the Queen of Denmark had admired it. "Always respect what the queens admire, Jake," he'd said with a wink.' What is it about high-octane investment banker Jules that easy-going, embroi...
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  • THE LAMB: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
    THE LAMB: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
    LUCY ROSE
    THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A gripping, sinister folktale set in contemporary Cumbria for fans of Sophie Mackintosh, Angela Carter, Daisy Johnson, Margaret Atwood and Julia Armfield 'A new generation of literary horror begins with Lucy Rose' GENEVIEVE JAGGER 'Deliciously dark and shockingly bold. One of my favourite debuts in a long time' KIRSTY LOGAN 'Superbly creepy . ...
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  • THE EMPUSIUM
    THE EMPUSIUM
    OLGA TOKARCZUK
    In September 1913, Mieczyslaw Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss the great issues of the day: Will there be war? Monarchy or...
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  • SERIOUS MONEY
    SERIOUS MONEY
    CAROLINE KNOWLES
    'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times 'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial Times London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. ...
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  • ALLEGIANT
    ALLEGIANT
    VERONICA ROTH
    The thrilling third book in the internationally bestselling Divergent series that inspired a series of major motion pictures starring Shailene Woodley. This special 10th anniversary edition features exclusive content from Veronica Roth and a beautiful reimagined cover art from award-winning illustrator Victo Ngai. The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is s...
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  • THE HOUSE OF DOORS
    THE HOUSE OF DOORS
    TAN TWAN ENG
    "It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert's, comes to stay. Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of his day. But he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business inte...
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  • EMPIRE OF THE SUN
    EMPIRE OF THE SUN
    J. G. BALLARD
    Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come.. ...
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  • FOREIGN BODIES
    FOREIGN BODIES
    SIMON SCHAMA
    'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer 'Extraordinary... A meticulous retelling of a terrible yet scientifically innovative period... Makes an urgent case for building a better future on our toxic past' Guardian 'This...
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  • THE CASE OF THE ASPHYXIATED ALEXANDRIAN
    THE CASE OF THE ASPHYXIATED ALEXANDRIAN
    SEAN MCLACHLAN
    A mysterious murder. A lost pharaoh. Sir Augustus Wall came to Egypt to escape his old life, but when a comrade from the trenches is found murdered in a Cairo hotel, Augustus realizes his past has finally caught up. Now he must discover the reason for the baffling murder, leading him and his friends Moustafa and Faisal on a dangerous hunt for the most sought-after treasure in E...
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